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The thread for the ongoing MANTIS RADIO archives. The show is available as a free podcast (on iTunes and via an RSS feed for any podcast reader).

All the recent shows can also be streamed from our Mixcloud profile.

You can always listen to the show live, broadcasting fortnightly from south London, if you so choose of course.

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MANTIS RADIO 085 + SCOTT ROBINSON
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Bong-Ra – Kraken [Ad Noiseam]
Chrodata – When Nature Fights Back [Militant Science]
Kangding Ray – Mirrors [Raster-Noton]
Tropic of Cancer – Dive (Wheel of the Law [Blackest Ever Black]
Dez Williams – Ghost Guard [Minimalsoul]
Orphx – Stillpoint [Sonic Groove]
Fabrics – Attractor [From A Tree]
SP:MC – Trust Nobody [Tempa]
NHKyx – Perfectchange [SKAM]
Objekt – The Goose That Got Away [Objekt]
Kangding Ray – Or [Raster-Noton]
Robert Pain – Scena II [Transporta]
Robert Pain – Scena III [Transporta]
Death Abyss – Conformity is Suicide [Rodz-Konez]
Scorn – Turn Ting Up [Ad Noiseam]
Frost Raven – Swamp Walker [Sub Pressure]
Bass Kittens – MFS_Root [[k]racktoni[k]]
Altern-8 – Frequency (Generic Bass Move My Hoover remix) [dub]
Vic B + Redshift – Terror Part II [Top Drawer Digital]
Dijj – fin_droon (Perc remixx) [ASRX]

hour 2 / SCOTT ROBINSON
Scott Robinson – State of ADD (Live) [DRKFLR]
Scott Robinson – Mind Clipped (Live)
Scott Robinson – 720 – 4 (Live)
Scott Robinson – Temporary Fitness (Live)
Scott Robinson – Underground Persistence (Live)
Scott Robinson – Stunted Hero (Live)
Scott Robinson – The Flight Of The Suicidal Bumble Bee (Live)
Scott Robinson – Evana More Sure (Live)
Scott Robinson – Unacceptable Misbehaviour (Live)
Scott Robinson – Slippery When Set (Live)
Scott Robinson – Distant Neighbours (Live)
Scott Robinson – Two Hands Are Better Than None (Live)
Scott Robinson – Cider With Lairy (Live)
Scott Robinson – …And Then The Sun Rose [Russian-Techno]
Scott Robinson – Squint (Live)
Scott Robinson – Unified Skin (Live)
Scott Robinson – Rastarizer (Live)
Scott Robinson – Fight In The ****ing Revolution! (Live)

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For our showcase session this week I’ve great pleasure in welcoming the machinations of Scott Robinson.

the SHOWCASE
Returning to production after a considerable break of 8 years, Scott Robinson is back in the studio. Prior to his break he was know for his involvement with London’s Ugly Funk night where he had a captive audience for his twisted techno alongside Subhead, Neil Landstrumm and Tobias Schmidt. He saw his work released through Cluster and Ugly Funk’s own imprint.

Following his return to the studio Scott has a new, ever growing fan base of listeners, mostly due to the work on his Soundcloud together with 2 releases for Russian-Techno (which is where we first heard him here at MANTIS).

Rather than produce single tracks with a clear beginning and end Scott approaches things differently. Recording long studio sessions where he feels the sounds are put into more context allowing him more control over the general feel of his set and where he can push the production technology to its limits, pushing his sound forward. Which is the point of techno after all as he sees it.

His music is an amalgamation of the many genres and styles of techno he has been through since he first started writing music back in ’89. You won’t find a set from him that stays at one level for an hour, rather it will be an adventurous journey thorough perversely dark, dirty shrill sounds and beats always marked with a unique twist of psychedelic off the cuff weirdness that verges on the mentally unstable end of the techno spectrum.

New work is coming out on Russian Techno in the next few weeks as part of the 3rd in the ongoing series of Expanding the Borders (where they look beyond Russian based artists). The first track featured in tonight’s showcase session will see release on our very own DRKFLR label later this year.

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MANTIS RADIO 084 + LIFECYCLE
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Ed Devane – Squib (the person mix) [Takeover Recordings]
Bahir – Etrag [Chi Recordings]
Bengalfuel – Forest Ghost [Hibernate]
Gridlock – Chrometaphor [Hymen Records]
Dogboy – Tau [Fullfridge]
Substep Infrabass – The Satheist (PTR1 remix) [dub]
Lee J Malcolm – OneStar [EPM Music]
Lee J Malcolm – OneStar Applicant (James Ruskin rework) [EPM Music]
Octave One – Love and Hate (Cari Lekebusch remix) [430 West]
The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea (Fog’s Future Retro remix) [dub]
Dijj – X_64 [ASRX]
Phat Chex – Party People [dub]
Lolo aka Acidus – Slater [Audioexit]
Rabitza – Last News of the World (Sub remix) [Russian-Techno]
T.R.O. – Communication (Dr. Schmidt remix) [Maschinen Musik]
Dijj – Fin_droon [ASRX]
Jnr Hacksaw – Hoffman [Subatomik]
Darkmode – DYN [Elektroda Ziq]
The Hidden Persuader – System Saboteurs (Pip Williams THP remix) [thehiddenpersuader]
Lolo aka Acidus – Toferina [Audioexit]
Mobthrow – Street Breakz [Ad Noiseam]
Mobthrow – Iron Tribal [Ad Noiseam]

hour 2 / LIFECYCLE
Lifecycle – Flam [Glack Audio]
Andrea Parker – Invasion [Touchin' Bass]
Lifecycle – Euphorics 101 [Ricochet Records] forthcoming
Habersham + AOE – Duneza Danza [Lobotomy]
John Tejada – Time Factory [Palette]
Ion Driver – Hang In There [Ricochet Records] forthcoming
Re:Group – AntiChance (Jesse Somfay remix) [Detroit Underground]
Bownr – Water And Fire [Ricochet Records] forthcoming
Audiovoid – Smear Your Mind [Addictech]
Sinthetix – Glass [Ohm Resistance]
Kawatin – Bended Park [Ricochet Records]
Photek – 124 [Science]
Lifecycle – Correcting Fluid (Ochre remix) [Ricochet Records] forthcoming

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Coming up this week we’ve a producer, DJ and label owner I’ve been hankering for a while to get on the show. Digging deep and wide with an awesome exclusive showcase session is the one known as Lifecycle.

the SHOWCASE
Head of independent electro imprint Ricochet Records, Lifecycle has an ever growing reputation from his releases on Londonbreakz, Electrofly, Fluid and Looq for producing compelling records which are hard to categorise. Energy from last century’s rave scene is channelled into deep, dark, progressive electro.

Recent releases have been described by the press as ‘lavishly psychedelic‘, ‘invigoratingly intense‘, ‘on crack‘, ‘tensely unpredictable‘, ‘thinking man’s tear out‘ and ‘a growling, percussive carnival of a warehouse adventure‘.

A full live band is currently out on the road fleshing out new material with a sound that is equally hard to pin down, somewhere between progressive rock, tribal electro and jazz-tinged breakbeat, with a heavy emphasis on improvisation and interplay between each of the group.

Lifecycle has constructed a very special 3 deck mix for the show with new and exclusive bits from himself, Ion Driver and his latest signing to Ricochet: Bownr.

DRKFLR BOARDS
Earlier this year we opened the Darkfloor forum: a collection of message boards to discuss all things darkfloor electronica, together with other music both electronic and beyond, as well as events.

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MANTIS RADIO 087 + GLOBAL GOON
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Nonima – Karmadebt [Section27]
Dead TV Society – Existing In A Single Copy [Noxgenus]
Dadavistic Orchestra – Teh Meh Teh Meh
Sigha – The Black House [Blueprint]
Isotroph – Lymbes [F4T Music]
Max Duley – Electric Olive [ARC(ANE)]
Cornelia – Aquarius Dreams (DVA’s Hi-Emotion mix) [Camp Mozart]
Hodge – Boy + Girl [Gradient Audio]
Surgeon – Muggerscum Out (Alex Smoke remix) [Soma]
Mazzula – Weather Wash [dub]
Lifecycle – Correcting Fluid [Ricochet Records]
Lifecycle – Euphorics 101 [Ricochet Records]
Solypis – I Will Always Be Your Solieri [Sunwarped Records]
Lone Wolf – Blade [Black Hoe Recordings]
Om Unit vs Lorn – Obsidian [dub]
Nonima – pH1 [Section27]
Surgeon – Those Who Do Not [Dynamic Tension]
Dr. Schmidt – Gunhed [Maschinen Musik]
Om Unit – The Timps [Civil Music]
Perc – London, We Have You Surrounded [Perc Trax]
Alan Morse Davies – Spitsbergen [theCentrifuge]

hour 2 / GLOBAL GOON
Global Goon – Quanital pietr
Global Goon – Topish Magnamor
Global Goon – Rodingerry Fengkx
Global Goon – Tellingtime Topmorf
Global Goon – Socamor Rododindong
Global Goon – Kenworthy Saint Michaels
Global Goon – Darkfood Dendrichon
Global Goon – Smosh the Bifters
Global Goon – Sensit Osensit
Global Goon – Wikkity Masters
Global Goon – Spanish McGerman
Global Goon – Liptops
Global Goon – Quotator
Global Goon – Quinx

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Up this week we welcome to the showcase session an artist who has been at the electronica craft for a while. Dishing out an exclusive hardware session is none other that Global Goon.

the SHOWCASE
His first album Goon saw the light on Rephlex Records back in 1996 whilst he was sharing a house in London with Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Chris Jeffs (Cylob) and Grant Wilson-Claridge (who alongside James is responsible for Rephlex). Rumours abounded following his debut release that it was an alias for Aphex Twin, and this persisted still with his Cradle of History release 2 years later.

In the early part of the last decade Johnny left Rephlex to start his own label J-Hok Records where he has released several albums and EPs. I was pretty late to the game with Mr Goon only really getting into his sound after hearing last year’s Earwig album on Myuzyk. In a way to make amends I’ve great pleasure in welcoming his acid heavy electronica flexing to the show.

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MANTIS RADIO 088 + HERD
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Noisia – Machine Gun (Amon Tobin remix) [Division]
Scorn – The Distance Between [Hymen]
Funerals – MARAE (AAIMON remix) [Tundra]
Tipper – Rip Cord [Chi Recordings]
Alex Smoke – Never Want To See You Again (Sei A remix) [Soma]
Claudio PRC – Abell 315 – V [Aconito Records]
Percy-X – X-Trax 1 (Regis remodel) [Soma]
Coefficient – Heliosphere [Subsequent Records]
John Tejada – Unstable Condition [KOMPAKT]
Funkstörung – Beinh (33rpm Mix) [Hymen]
Patscan – Bad Machines [Digital Distortions]
AFX – Elephant Song [Rephlex]
Galaxian – What Now? [dub]
Mazzula – 2 Note Wonder [dub]
George Lanham – The Cambridge Offensive [dub]
Sascha Mueller – What We Do [Russian-Techno]
INFRA + m3t4 – Dioxin [F4T Music]
The Person – SUI Hightide [Takeover Recordings]
Stanislav Tolkachev – 4th Block [Pohjola]
Joby – Promised [dub]
Puscifer – Queen B. (Richard Devine’s Glitched and Bent mix) [Puscifer Entertainment]
Hype Williams – Farthing Wood Dub [Hyperdub]

hour 2 / HERD
Tatamax – Terete
Secede – Last Hours
Herd – Tangent 37
Future Sound of London – Light Forming
Herd – Tangent 45
Daniel Pemberton – Phosphine
Autechre – Netlon Sentinel
Datachi – Event Recon
Curve – Rising (Headspace Mix)
Future Sound of London – A Diversionary Tactic
Datachi – Blind
Biosphere – The Shield
Secede – Last Hours
Underworld – Tongue
Andrea Parker – Ballbreaker
Banco De Gaia – Souffie
Herd – Tangent 43
Arcon 2 – Contact
Future Sound of London – A Study of Six Guitars
Funckarma – Kaon Interlude
Herd – Tangent 38
Herd – Terminal Window

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Up this week I’ve great pleasure in presenting Herd. An artist with a supreme ability for the deep sublime soundscape.

the SHOWCASE
Continuing in a similar vein to his Duck Eye Calm mix Herd returns with another 30 minute soundscape containing more of his ongoing Tangents series, which currently sits at close to 50 tracks.

This journey began on TheMixingbowl where productions pre Herd were uploaded for the members to offer feedback. This feedback helped develop the Herd sound and releases on netlabels FSOR (USA), Bumpfoot (Japan) and Entity (Belgium) followed. Radio exposure in the early days included the legendary Mary Anne Hobbs show for Radio One:

‘Deeply mysterious – this one’s for all the Murcof fans’ - Mary Anne Hobbs

as well as Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations sixth show. This support waned in the following year leaving Herd time to refine his sound. Fast forward another year and Herd flippantly sends a demo link to The Future Sound of London’s Brian Dougans and is pleasantly surprised to receive a very short but positive reply. Nine frustrating months later – not long in FSOL time – and Tangents 41 – 47 is released on the Future Sound of Londons online label FSOLdigital.

‘Nothing more than an amazing (and very welcome) flashback to my favorite world of FSOL’ – Headphone Commute

Prepare for a beautiful journey into the world of Herd.

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MANTIS RADIO 089 + ∆AIMON
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hour 1 / DVNT
Death Grips – Face Melter (How To Do Impossible Things) [self-released]
Yoshizawa – Masami [16dimensional Records]
The Future Sound of London – My Kingdom (Part 5) [Virgin]
Dubh Thrian – ilex [Alkalinear Recordings]
Optimum – Lily [Planet Mu]
Alavux – Floating [dub]
Luke Slater – All Exhale (Rude Solo remix) [novamute]
Ion Driver – Hang In There (Hang Version) [Ricochet Records]
C. Mantle – L Mink (the wee djs remix) [Acre Recordings]
Neil Landstrumm – Kids Wake Up [Planet Mu]
Wilko – Work Ya Body (Darren Rice remix) [self-released]
Blackmass Plastics – Rhodes 2 Ruin [Furioso]
Macgregor – Start Treep Fooler (Tosi remix) [xetechno]
King Cannibal vs Ghettozoid – One Night Boy Toy [dub]
Ion Driver + Joby – Hum [Ricochet Records]
Frank Kvitta feat. The Horrorist – Destroyer (Boris S. remix) [Frank Kvitta Records]
Dead Sound vs George Lanham – DSGL03 [dub]
Luiz Ruiz – Sprawl [ASRX]
Zdot – Ammunition (Instrumental) [Zdot Productions]
Jon E Alpha – Nu Life [self-released]
Swarm Intelligence – Krankbass [Alkalinear Recordings]
Cova – Comba [self-released]

hour 2 / ∆AIMON
Petra Schelm - DARKER
William Fitzsimmons VS numbernin6 - What You've Done
AAIMON - current
Chelsea Wolfe - Pale On Pale
MARA5 - Water = Blood = Ashes = Bone (AAIMON remix)
Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Mix)
A - plums
Zomby - Haunted
RAIN - sdrawkcaB
Dark Castle - Weather The Storm
SKELETONKIDS - KVLTSHYT (AAIMON remix)
FUNERALS - Water Over Night
COIL - Tenderness of Wolves
AAIMON - Low

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We head to San Diego this week to bring you the dark and murky sounds of AAIMON.

the SHOWCASE
A male/female duo from Southern California; AAIMON defy their sunny locale in exchange for beautiful, grim and sometimes harsh occult soundscapes; with compositions built on anxiety and paranoia giving way to a heightened feverish sexuality and erotic ritualism.

Coming from an extremely wide set of influences, their music is its own unique blend of slow and menacing conjurations. Generally connected with the ‘drag‘ and ‘witchhouse‘ genres, AAIMON uses unconventional sound-design and tension within often pop oriented song structures to instill unnerving sensations.

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MANTIS RADIO 090 + HOTH SYSTEM
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hour 1 / DVNT
Bill Laswell vs Submerged – Mass Graves [Avant]
Roly Porter – Tieilax [Subtext]
Headnoaks – Bossman (Deputy Outta Space remix) [Militant Science]
Phat Chex – Neural Oscillation [dub]
Robert Babicz – Remote Kiss (K.Larm + J.Raninen remix) [self-released]
Deepchord – Amsterdam Remnant 5 [Soma Records]
Sawf – Peplo [Perc Trax]
Oyaarss – ibumetins sagurusai dveselei [oyaarss]
Mr Jones – Zoom 42.0 (Yeah Jack) (Luke Creed remix) [Public Stand]
Dead Sound + Videohead – Pench [Acroplane]
Dead Sound + Videohead – Degree [Acroplane]
Dead Sound + Videohead – Slide [Acroplane]
Cosmin TRG – Fizic [50Weapons]
Anodyne Industries – Get Darker [IDMF]
Shingami San – Percussive [F4T Music]
KidChameleon – Found You [On A Break Records]
Michael Forshaw – Fingered In’t Tate [Mutant Bass Records]

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Hoth System – Scalped
Hoth System – Ain’t You Heard
Hoth System – The Sky Is Angry
Hoth System – Ungodly Stench
Hoth System – Abnormality
Hoth System – Blue Diamond
Hoth System – Canadian Border
Hoth System – Master of Evil
Hoth System – Skull Detail
Hoth System – Grim Acceptance
Hoth System – Harvesting the Skin of Children
Hoth System – Axe Wound
Hoth System – Double Yellow
Hoth System – Escape From New York
Hoth System – Millipede
Hoth System – Potential Difference
Hoth System – Murder In Eden
Hoth System – Far Too Ugly

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This week we head to Northern Ireland, Belfast in fact, to bring you the machine flexing production work of Hoth System.

the SHOWCASE
Birth name Tony McMurray; Hoth System has been on the Darkfloor radar for literally years, and it’s taken years to lock him down and get a production showcase that will illustrate just how good he can make techno sound. Every few weeks a new track appears and it cements itself as solid focused effort, so much so that I’m never without a few Hoth System cuts in my record box. Hoth has an EP coming out next month on our favourite Hungarian techno netlabel Audioexit and a track on Spain’s Benzel Label and their Conexion vinyl 12″ later this year.

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MANTIS RADIO 091 + PERC
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hour 1 / DVNT
Boyd Nice – BIRTHDAYBLOODBATH [dub]
Voltek – Midland Mainline [Acroplane]
Imminent Starvation – Aries [Ant-Zen]
Radiohead – Bloom (Objekt remix) [Ticker Tape]
wk[es] – Breed [Hz-records]
Cooly G – Phat Si [Hyperdub]
GabeeN – Lost Soul (George Lanham remix) [dub]
Drugstore – Udayan [Cicuta Netlabel]
Mat Lionis – Beat Runner [Dakoa Records]
Vegim – Libirium [Cicuta Netlabel]
Mark Archer – Frequency (DMX Krew’s Asylum Seekers remix) [Balkan Vinyl]
DJ Madd – Detroit Skank [Boka Records]
Doctor Jeep – Level II [Endfence]
Notice – Chemikal Recipe remix [Butterz]
Mobthrow – Flashback [Mindtrick Recordings]
Chordata – Griffin [dub]
Kidchameleon + Casual Breakin’ – Songs of Praise [On A Break Records]
Aphex Twin – 54 Cymru Beats (Maily edit) [dub]

showcase / PERC
Perc – Pre-Steel (Tengui remix) [Perc Trax]
Developer – Programmer [Modular Recs]
Marcel Dettmann – Transition One [Ostgut Ton]
Raeyk – Asleep (Dario Xenker remix) [Varianz]
Andrea Di Rocco – Left Hand (Perc Tool) [IWW Music]
ASC – Capsule [Perc Trax]
Darkcell – Dusty (Perc remix) [Fluxus]
Planetary Assault Systems – Wriss [Ostgut Ton]
Hans Bouffmyhre – Closed Circuit [Perc Trax]
DJ Slip – Detroit Moves To Berlin [Kanzleramt]
Donor / Truss – Endo 3 [Perc Trax]
Northern Structures – Boltz [Sonic Groove]
Marcel Dettmann – Transition Two [Ostgut Ton]
Conrad Van Orton – Shattered [Key Records]
Truncate – Truncate 21 (DJ Hyperactive remix) [Truncate]
Exaltics – Creep Over [Bunker]
Sawlin – Painfull [Ten Label]
Conrad Van Orton – Shattered [Key Records]
Ancient Methods – Confused Voltage [Ten Records]
DJ Slip – Area Boys [Kanzleramt]
Perc – Start Chopping (Tommy Four Seven remix) [Perc Trax]
Sigha – HF029B2 [Hot Flush]

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A big guest this week in the shape of Ali Wells aka Perc who’ll be live from the Darkfloor HQ in south London.

the SHOWCASE
No doubt any of you with the merest of interest in techno will be aware of who Perc is. An internationally touring DJ and with his debut album Wicker and Steel and a string of on-point tracks behind him, an ever-growing force in production. He also heads up the label Perc Trax which in the past 2 years in my opinion has really found it’s voice delivering consistently high-grade techno workouts with work from Sawf, Forward Strategy group, Perc, Donor / Truss together with heavyweights like Samuli Kemppi guesting.

his rise to prominence has seen him releasing atmospheric drone and premium techno since 2002. It was pretty clear that he was headed for good things when James Holden supported one of his early demos. As usual, Holden wasn’t wrong.

It was in 2007 that things started to get really interesting for Perc as the influential Kompakt took notice releasing Up with a invite to remix DJ Hell’s Buttersäure landing on his lap shortly after. Serving up an industrially fortified techno remix produced yet more interest culminating in remix work for Beyer’s Drumcode and Trentemøller.

He’s played worldwide, from Mexico to Japan to the techno mecca that is Berlin’s Berghain.

Perc’s harddrive brims with tracks including his own productions and armfuls of tools. His sound? It’s a blend of the cream of current techno and choice selections from electronic music’s Birmingham and Detroit forefathers. When it comes to playing live Perc goes deep. He mixes purely his own productions both released and unreleased, reconfiguring them into driving sounds; drone becomes big room techno becomes broken-beat becomes groove. Perc creates DJ and live sets that are industrial landscapes optimized for the dance floor.

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